Douglas Lima (left) is a three-time Bellator welterweight champion. | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Douglas Lima is one of the best welterweights in the world right now, but he feels many won’t give him proper credit since he doesn’t fight under the UFC banner. Lima won’t call himself the No. 1 welterweight after re-claiming the […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was back at it again last night (Sat., Nov. 16, 2019) as UFC Fight Night 164 went down from inside inside Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the main event of the evening, Jan Blachowicz narrowly edged out Ronaldo Souza via split-decision, […]
Jason Da Silva-USA TODAY Sports Here’s what you may have missed from last night! UFC Sao Paulo is not an event that will be remembered for much. There were a couple decent, back-and-forth scraps, and really, there were four finishes that deserve to be talked about. Each of those fighters were awarded an additional 50,000 […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) made its presence known to Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last night (Sat., Nov. 16, 2019) for UFC Fight Night 164. Look, I expect everyone reading to know the drill by now: UFC put together another regional “Fight Night” card with one […]
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza made his light heavyweight debut on Saturday night in Sao Paulo against Jan Blachowicz, and it was a pretty disappointing affair across the board. A whole lot of nothing played out in the cage over twenty five minutes, ending with Blachowicz getting his hand raised by split […]
Instagram – Sajad Gharibi Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship continues to thrive as the promotion combines their reputation as the new bloody spectacle with creative matchmaking. Artem Lobov vs. Paulie Malignaggi was a pretty audacious booking, and I’m still impressed the fight actually went down (and shocked Lobov won). While morally questionable, the Gabriel Gonzaga vs. […]
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images On Saturday night in front of an intense home country crowd in Sao Paulo, Charles Oliveira added another highlight reel finish to his already impressive body of work. This time it was an 86 second knockout of Jared Gordon (watch the finish here), putting “Do Bronx” on […]
Photo by David Dermer/Diamond Images/Getty Images Last week Nick Diaz stepped out of the shadows to give a 50 minute interview with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, the first extensive discussion he’s participated in on his fight career in years. Unfortunately, there was a lot of contradictory statements delivered during Diaz’s rambling pot enhanced train of thought. […]
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was back at it again last night (Sat., Nov. 16, 2019) as UFC Fight Night 164 went down from inside inside Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the main event of the evening, Jan Blachowicz narrowly edged out Ronaldo Souza via split-decision, […]
Sao Paulo, Brazil played host to UFC on ESPN+ 22 on Saturday with light heavyweight contender Jan Błachowicz taking on former Strikeforce middleweight champion Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in the main event at Ginásio do Ibirapuera. Blachowicz entered the bout ranked No. 6 in the 205-pound division and was coming off a knockout win over former […]